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Allen, Rick
Rick Allen (R-Ga.) is a right-wing Republican who has served Georgia’s 12th Congressional District in the U.S. House of Representatives since 2015.
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Amick, Mark
Mark Amick is a politician who lives in Milton, Georgia and is among 14 fake electors from Georgia who are under investigation by a Fulton County grand jury for breaking local election laws.
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Carter, Buddy
About Earl L. “Buddy” Carter (R-Ga.) has served Georgia’s 1st Congressional District in the U.S. House of Representatives since 2015. He easily won reelection in 2022—with Trump’s endorsement—in his heavily Republican district. Before being elected to Congress, Carter owned a pharmacy in southern Georgia and served as a member of the Georgia State Senate from … Read more
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Clyde, Andrew
Andrew Clyde (R-Ga.) was first sworn in to the U.S. House of Representatives on Jan. 3, 2021, representing Georgia’s 9th Congressional District. He ran for a second term in 2022 with Trump’s endorsement and won his district with more than 70% of the vote.
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Dec. 9, 2020 Letter to the White House
On Dec. 9, 2020, a group of 27 Republican congressmen sent a letter to President Trump asking him to order Attorney General William Barr to appoint a special counsel to investigate “irregularities in the 2020 election.”
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DOJ Draft Letter to Georgia
About On Dec. 28, 2020, Jeffrey Clark, a Trump loyalist at the Department of Justice (DOJ), drafted a letter pushing officials in Georgia to hold a special session of the state legislature in order to investigate supposed “irregularities” in the 2020 presidential election. He collaborated on the letter with Ken Klukowski, another Justice Department lawyer … Read more
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Dominion Voting Systems
Once Trump lost the 2020 presidential election, Dominion became the target of baseless allegations of fraud—charges that it has repeatedly repudiated and challenged in court ever since. In 2023, Fox News paid $787 million to Dominion to settle the defamation lawsuit brought against it, and cases are still pending against other right-wing news outlets such as Newsmax and One American News Network.
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Election Audit—Georgia
Due to the close margin of victory for Biden in Georgia, the stete almost immediately conducted a statewide audit and a hand recount of all ballots. But one audit wasn’t enough for the Trump campaign, which pressed for multiple recounts and investigations.
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Election Equipment Data Breaches
About On several occasions after the 2020 presidential election, Trump allies breached equipment used at polling locations around the country in search of evidence to support voting fraud conspiracy theories. The breaches have included unauthorized people stealing voting system passwords and posting them online, taking and distributing confidential voting software, and inspecting ballot-counting machines. These … Read more
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Georgia Fake Electors
Sixteen Republican residents of Georgia attempted to subvert the results of the 2020 presidential election by submitting fake Electoral College documents to Congress as part of the Jan. 6. 2021 certification process.